This poem's title character has "...nothing to look backward to with pride, / And nothing to look forward to with hope." However, he has never asked for help from his bank director brother, who lives just thirteen miles from where he works. One of the speakers in this poem remembers the title character working with Harold Wilson, a college student who "studied Latin like the violin / Because he liked it" but does not believe in the title character's divining skills. He and Harold spent the summer bundling hay, which is his "one accomplishment," and he told one of this poem's speakers that he had returned to help ditch the meadows. That character is Mary, whose husban
This poem's title character has "...nothing to look backward to with pride, / And nothing to look forward to with hope." However, he has never asked for help from his bank director brother, who lives just thirteen miles from where he works. One of the speakers in this poem remembers the title character working with Harold Wilson, a college student who "studied Latin like the violin / Because he liked it" but does not believe in the title character's divining skills. He and Harold spent the summer bundling hay, which is his "one accomplishment," and he told one of this poem's speakers that he had returned to help ditch the meadows. That character is Mary, whose husband Warren announces Silas's death at this poem's end. For 10 points, name this poem that is mostly dialogue between Warren and Mary, a work of Robert Frost about the demise of the title character.
This poem's title character has "...nothing to look backward to with pride, /
“Death of the {Hired Man}”